Improvement in bottle-stoppers



NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-STOPPERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 91,349, dated June 15,1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, F. KUTSGHER, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented anew`lmprovement inBottle-Stoppers; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure 1, a side view of the bottle closed; Fig. 2, a central section aswhen free from the neck; and in Fig. 3 a central section as compressedinto the neck.

This invention relates to an improvement in stoppers for bottles such asare retained upon the bottle after it is opened, being designedespeciallyT for soda-water, ale, or similar beverages; and consists in arubber plug combined with a plate, the under surface of which is of aconical form, and to which arubber plug is attached, so that the coneupon the under side of the plate presses into and expands the rubber.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings.

A is a plug, of india-rubber or similar material B, a plate, upon theunder side of which is formed a cone, a., by preference formed bydepressing upon the upper side, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3.

The plug A is attached to the plate B by a central connection, d, sothat when the plate B is pressed down into the plug, as seen '1n Fig. 3,the plug will be expanded by means of the cone.

The plate B is hinged to the bottle by a linkconnection, C, and securedthereto by a loop, D, as seen in Fig. 1.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming a metallic platehinged to the bottle, and the india-rubber plug attached to the plate,as such, I am aware, is not new; but,

Having fully described my invention, what I do claim as new and useful,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the plate B, having the cone a formed upon its underside, and conibined with the plug A, so that the said cone serves toexpand the plug, as and for the purpose specified.

F. KUTSCHER.

Witnesses:

A. J. TrBBITs, J. H. SHUMWAY.

